The Electrical Box Murals program invites artists to transform everyday infrastructure into site-responsive public art reflecting the culture, history, architecture, and diversity of Yonge + St. Clair. Unique designs are painted or vinyl-wrapped and protected with anti-graffiti coatings to ensure durability. These installations enhance pedestrian engagement, celebrate past and present identity, and support a vibrant, unified public realm as the neighbourhood evolves.
The Electrical Box Murals program transforms ordinary pieces of streetscape infrastructure into opportunities for public art. The initiative aims to reduce the visual impact of utility equipment while creating neighbourhood-scale artworks that reflect Yonge + St. Clair’s culture, history, architecture, diversity, and continually evolving identity.
The murals create small moments of discovery while replacing visually utilitarian surfaces with colourful local expression. Collectively, the installations help make the public realm feel more cared for, distinctive, engaging, and connected to community identity.
Artists develop unique, site-responsive designs for individual electrical boxes, using either painted finishes or durable vinyl wraps. Completed artworks receive protective anti-graffiti coatings to improve longevity. This approach uses the mundane to integrate art into the urban sphere!
Designs may be painted directly onto surfaces or installed as vinyl wraps
Protective anti-graffiti coatings are incorporated to increase durability and help preserve the installations
